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2 Samuel 4:6-12

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6 They came to the middle of the house as if to get wheat, and 1they struck him in the belly; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
7 Now when they came into the house, as he was lying on his bed in his bedroom *, they struck him and killed him and beheaded * him. And they took his head and 2traveled by way of the Arabah all night.
8 Then they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, "Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth 3the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus the LORD has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his descendants."
9 David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, "As the LORD lives, 4who has redeemed my life from all distress,
10 5when one told me, saying, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
11 "How much * more *, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now 6require his blood from your hand and destroy you from the earth?"
12 Then 7David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth 8and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.
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2 Samuel 4:6-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 4

This chapter relates the concern the death of Abner gave to Ishbosheth, and the men of Israel, 2Sa 4:1; the murder of Ishbosheth by two of his captains, who cut off his head, and brought it to David, 2Sa 4:2-8; by whom they were rewarded according to their deserts, he putting them to death, and exposing their bodies to shame and ignominy, 2Sa 4:9-12.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

  • 1. 2 Samuel 2:23
  • 2. 2 Samuel 2:29
  • 3. 1 Samuel 24:4; 1 Samuel 25:29
  • 4. Genesis 48:16; 1 Kings 1:29; Psalms 31:7
  • 5. 2 Sam 1:2, 4, 15
  • 6. Genesis 9:5; Psalms 9:12
  • 7. 2 Samuel 1:15
  • 8. 2 Samuel 3:32

Footnotes 6

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